Guide To Mezzo-Sopranos In Pop Music
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- A video dedicated to mezzo-sopranos in pop music, I hope you'll like it!
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0:00 Intro, what's a mezzo-soprano?
0:14 Your voice type is important, but it is not everything!
0:44 How to recognize a mezzo? First, look at lower register!
0:56 Examples - Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Adele, Christina Aguilera and more
3:48 There's variation within every voice type
4:02 How to recognize a mezzo? Belting is important too!
4:40 Examples - JoJo, Liz Gillies, Jazmine Sullivan, Sara Bareilles and more
6:47 Head voice needs to be taken into consideration as well
7:56 Outro 
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Honestly, I always felt disappointed being a mezzo because being in musical theater, we never get lead parts. They tend to go straight to the sopranos with the "heroine" or "princess" voice. I had no idea that so many incredible female vocalists were mezzos. This made me feel so much better and more confident. Thank you! 🥰
Same
A lot of the singers in this video are sopranos.
I get you this was me in my school choir
I can relate💔
@@KajiVocals why are you the only one that’s seems to think everyone is a soprano? Literally none of these women are sopranos.
It seems like *Mezzo-Sopranos & Baritones* in mainstream music are technically superior to *Sopranos & Tenors* on average. It also seems that they are more committed towards building their techniques; I truly wonder why. (Is it because they don't naturally have the high tessitura that mainstream music tends to praise, hence they have their natural strength in the mids but work to sing the highs with more proficiency and strengthen their lows even more?)
There are still extraordinary *Soprano & Tenor* Vocalists though eg. Mariah, Whitney, Celine, Luther Vandross, Michael Bolton, David Phelps, Sohyang, Lara Fabian, Steve Perry etc. ✨
I think its because they can hit the low notes some songs require and they have a more developed tone so its pleasant for the viewers to listen to. (I personally disagree with what they think)
Mainstream Sopranos can do what people love but unfortunately when they do high notes people seem to confuse it as screaming for example Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Queen Naija, Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and so many more
@@grandeflamesbutera3949 I would get into it with you about Beyonce rather being a Mezzo-Soprano (and her voice simply not being fully developed during her DC and debut days) but I get what you're saying overall.
Yeah, but also just to be real, it’s just harder to be a tenor or soprano on a technical level. Mezzos and Baritones aren’t in danger of straining quite as high and they usually sing in places more comfortable for them while the other two are expected to push themselves to places that aren’t comfortable. Just speaking from experience tenors in particular have to sing many songs around their passaggio/middle voice which sits in a place that’s much harder to control volume wise than a baritone’s mid-range.
Not saying one is better than the other though. I usually prefer hearing mezzos and baritones.
@@Platinum400 I must say that's a fair point, however Mezzo-Sopranos and Baritones in mainstream music are usually put under pressure to sound like Sopranos and Tenors.
Beyoncé and JoJo... the texture, control and comfort they have in their lower register is mesmerizing! Definitely the leaders of the pack!
Beyonce and Jojo are contraltos.
Grigory Kurdyukov no , they are coloratura lirico mezzo soprano
@@Kurdyukov87pianist Beyoncé is definitely a mezzo lol
Adele too
@@Kurdyukov87pianist just because a woman can sing really low does not make her a contralto. It’s the contralto’s husky androgynous tone that makes a contralto a contralto…people tend to think a guy is singing when contraltos sing
Liz’s tone is so good, I wish she’d put out an album
she has so much potential its such a waste of talent that she doesnt release more music
Looks like Gaga's!
She did do a collab EP.
Realizing I'm a mezzo makes my tween/teen choir experiences make more sense. Could never hit the soprano highs well, but definitely couldn't hit alto lows either Realizing Adele is a mezzo really made all my karaoke attempts make much more sense, because otherwise why was I a meer mortal having more luck with her songs than 'easier' songs.
Adele is a high mezzo. Some of the singers in this video are natural sopranos.
@@KajiVocals Who in this video are sopranos?
@@KajiVocals no... Adele can't even belt E5 note.
@@mooblink4ever899 Voice types have nothing to do with range. They have to do with tessitura and the timbre of the voice. Adele’s passaggi location along with her tessitura within the edge mode in the M1 laryngeal vibratory mechanism suggests a high mezzo-soprano bordering on soprano (but still definite mezzo).
And her not showcasing an E5 and higher notes does not mean she cannot do it. She has sustained Eb5s in chest prior and has sang a whole chorus on mix F5 in her new album.
@@KajiVocals It's ok If she can't belt E5.
The thing is for a mezzo to belt like a soprano, it takes a lot more effort. So usually, they work on their technique more so they can do it while sopranos have more natural ease that doesn't mean they do it in a healthy way.
Side note, the vocal community has developed so much in the last few years. Remember when people would start a vocal range video at C5? 😷😷😷 Justice for the 4th octave
Me tease.
It definitely has changed but those people who idolize Mariah and some other vocalists just as "supported range" thing is still there with their toxic bs. I hope we will get rid of it soon
@@lightning0506 Ok, no need to mention Mariah.
@@lightning0506 Yeah that's on it's way out
@@colintravers481 I think the user above appreciates Mariah as a vocalist, but is understandably irritated by people always throwing the term 'supported range' especially around these pop divas because singing is much more complicated than supporting or straining a note.
I know that many people won't say this but I personally love Beyonce's tone
Who doesn’t love Beyonce’s tone? And Beyonce in general?
@ohhh hhh You don't like Beyonce's tone that's fine You don't like that she uses reverb that's ok too. But her vibrato is not wobbly, colourless or underdeveloped.
@ohhh hhh U're definitely lying 🤥. If u're a fan of Beyonce's u would know that her fan base is called the Beyhive and not the beehive. Beyonce vibrato is very developed and it is one of the most consistent part of her voice. Nothing about Beyonce's voice is underdeveloped. She is technically one of the best/the best vocalist in mainstream pop. She has mastered the science of the voice. That is why she is still able to sing her songs.
@ohhh hhh Beyoncé doesn't have a wobble. She used to in the beginning tho. Her chest voice TA muscles are quite developed considering she can sing a C3 without the need of a mic and have it project and can sing 5th octave notes over other singers, choirs and instruments without the need of a mic. And considering how dark, resonant and loud her head voice is it would make sense that it's also has a lot of TA muscle coordination
To be honest her tone has always been polarizing. Her timbre is extremely acidic to a lot of people.
We need to stop sleeping on mezzos!! Many are wayyy better than some sopranos! Thanks for this video :)
Mezzos are the main ones that people listen to
There are barely any mezzos in contemporary music though.
@@KajiVocals Yeah I agree
I like mezzos tone better. Sopranos are so high jfkskkckz
Kaji I looked up what contemporary means and it’s not giving me a clear answer, could you explain what it is to me?
Fact. Liz Gillies needs to put out more music.
1:38 amazing support and warmy vibrato at D3!
She is amzing
Jazmine Sullivan doesn’t get enough credit. Amazing singer
Definitely agree
Mezzo sopranos deserves so much recognition. Their voices add flavor to the music and are better ngl and also have more soul and depth in their voices
Adele has such a beautiful tone🔥
I really like the rich and warm lower belts (F4 to A4) by the mezzo sopranos, they often turn out to be the most majestic part in their vocal performances. In the meantime I'd like to pay respect to Karen Carpenter and Ella Fitzgerald, both mezzos from the previous century, with Carpenter widely known as having the most gorgeous timbre and Fitzgerald celebrated for setting the high bar for all jazz singers to follow. 💛😇
P.S. I think the fact that mezzo sopranos today are still more common in genres outside of mainstream pop suggest that general listeners either prefer listening to lighter voices, or they are simply too infatuated with high notes. 🤦🏻♂️
Ella is a soprano. And vocal weight has nothing to do with voice type, so sopranos aren't inherently 'lighter'.
@@KajiVocals I've always thought Ella and Sarah (Vaughan) were mezzos with strong and agile upper register, since the fullness of their voices really came through in the 3rd octave. Perhaps I got that impression after being familiarised with today's lighter sopranos that I generally thought of fuller voiced female in the past era as mezzo (though I believe the older singers could easily sing alto in a choir due to their developed lower register).
@@strandedtraveller1038 Girly voices are trendy nowadays. Even the supposed mezzos (most are sopranos) sing very brightly and lightly and are not really a good example of how a real mezzo sounds like.
@@strandedtraveller1038 you are correct
An aggressive mezzo is a powerhouse though. Miley is such a beast.
All I know is that when it comes to pop mezzo’s, Beyoncé leads the pact.
Yeah, and jojo goes right behind.
*pack
Jazmine Sullivan
Yup... Beyonce has definitely master the mezzo-soprano tessitura. She makes it look so easy.
Lady Gaga is really good
Miley's dexterity down there is insane
I love LOVE Christina Aguilera's low register!!
Love you too by the way haha 😁 happy to see more videos from you
Brazilian contraltos are fabulous too, you could make a video about the contralto voice and serve it with lots of south american examples! 😁
I just gotta acknowledge that vocal weight has nothing to do with voice type. It's technical and habitual, and mostly dependent on singer's thyroarytenoid muscle engagement and vocal development. Higher closed quotient and skew quotient =/= lower voice. Singers taking weight higher up into the fifth octave (above D5) is actually usually a sign of af higher, rather than lower voice type.
Exactly!!!!
Yup
Also singers can be soprano or whatever yet break the norms...what determines true vocal type would be the overall use of the voice. ( of a properly developed singer)
@@Mohamedmifxal Yep. And we gotta be vary of TECHNIQUE used. For example, a classical soprano Elena Suliotis, naturally a leggiero soprano, when singing Suicidio she sounds quite similar to Callas because she uses a similar technique. Making her sound like a larger voice. If someone really wants to classify someone they gotta analyse their voice in full and listen to as much of their material as possible to make an educated guess and look at the technique they use to achieve the sounds they do carefully.
True Aina Abdul from malaysia tend to belt and put weight up to D5 but lately she belt with neutral sound and the D5 doesn’t sound that powerful and high for her
I love this guy's vocal analysis. It's so awesomely descriptive.
I love that you always show love to Mezzos, but especially to my girl Jojo.
I'm here for it. Can you do one but for men?
Jojo is just lower placed soprano just like most of the women shown in this video. The only true mezzoes here would be Adele, Miley and Gaga. Although I'm not sure about these 3 ladies. Miley used to have much higher voice before smoking, same thing goes to Gaga. Adele on the other hand manipulating her timbre a lot in order to sound darker and bigger than she is
Yes! Baritones in pop need some love too
@@dallak93 There's barely any lol.
@@KajiVocals I think baritones are more common in country and folk music today right? Some main ones I can think of are Justin Vernon (from Bon Iver), Josh Turner, Gregory Alan Isakov. In pop we have Scott Hoying (high baritone) and Damon Albarn (not as skilled). If we cite male singers from the past then we got Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, Scott Walker.
@@strandedtraveller1038 how bout John Legend? What tupe is he?
I'd love to see videos on altos/contraltos. They seem to get overlooked because of our emphasis on high notes.
SAME
Alto isn't a voice type. And there's under 5 real contraltos in contemporary music history.
Contraltos are very rare.
Adele love you sis always slaying them vocals omg
i know this has nothing to do with the video but i hate when people compare someone like christina to ariana,cuz their ways of belting coudnt be anymore different then eachother ariana uses a balanced headier mix while christina is dragging her chest,lungs,and the titanic out of the atlantic to hit her high notes
Yep. I find it silly to compare singers who sing VERY differently from each other.
Lmao I could help but laugh at how true this is. Techniques and styles are completely diff!
Honestly world's apart Ariana is very heady on her mix while christina basically pulls up chest voice
Ariana's mix is neither balanced nor heady. She has a lot of the same issues Christina does, she just has a lighter voice.
@@cameron7644 would you care to elaborate? her mix is heady/balanced that’s why many singers sound like her when they use a heady mix. well whatever she might be using it’s most definitely not chest (maybe it was pre 2014)
Christina Aguilera is one singer that's so hard to categorize. There were times I feel like she's a Soprano, but there were also times I thought she's a Mezzo. Is there any voice type that is Higher than a Mezzo but lower than a Soprano? Maybe she belongs there.
She's a soprano.
She's probably hard to categorize because she almost never sings with her natural voice lol. I know when she was younger her natural voice was very much soprano, no matter how much she tried to put her larynx in the basement to make her voice sound deeper and bigger lol. Nowadays, she's probably a mezzo-s.
She's definetely soprano
She's a mezzo soprano. Nothing more, nothing less.
She used to be a soprano but her range has lowered a bit into mezzo territory
Okay but seriously Halle and Chloe have some of the best head voices Ive ever heard
That Jojo's Unbreak My Heart cover!
Beyonce queen 👑👑👑👑.
Probably the best non-operatic mezzo still in the game.
Not a good esample of how a mezzo sounds. I think she’s a mezzo NOW though.
@@KajiVocals I don’t get your point. I think Beyonce was always a mezzo, she just had a brighter tone back then. Her timbre darkened and her tessitura lowered even more due to her maturation, pregnancy, births etc.
Ryan's Channel She had multiple miscarriages and pregnancies. Due to hormone release voice usually lowers with every one of those. She’d have been a contralto by now if she really started as a mezzo. Especially considering that pitch difference between mezzo and contralto is way smaller. And natural vocal brightness is directly related to your voice type as it generally relates to your vocal tract length. Also voice doesn’t lower in pitch with maturation.
@@KajiVocals Her miscarriages and births may have lowered her tessitura and decreased her ease in high belts such as like F#5, G5 and even F5, however I doubt only births will change the voice as much for it to be considered another fach. Many operatic singers also agree to this 🤷♂️
@@Ryan_K535 Well. It will though.
Perfect examples,Thank you
Thank you, very informative.
Chloe and Halle have the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard
These are all my favs🥺🥲 I’m so glad my voice isn’t ugly omg! For years I thought it was
Thank u. I enjoyed this video.
Adele forever😩❤
For all saying these girls arent mezzos how do y'all think mezzos sound like? Cher?
Cher is a Control alto so definitely not like her and maybe read the evidence are applying to their comments because it'll help u out
@@grandeflamesbutera3949 There is literally no evidence by making a statement in the comment section this video is tho and is very clear that virtuallall of them are mezzos. I did found your comment about Sara and maybe you are right about that one tho
@@eeeejsjdjd1767 KajiVocals applied evidence and ty I honestly don't think she is a mezzo when she is too bright and same with pink
@@eeeejsjdjd1767 Please listen to real mezzos in opera. Oralia Dominguez, Elena Obraztsova, Fedora Barbieri etc. THOSE are real mezzos. Dark and rich voices. Even lyric mezzo is still darker and richer and BIGGER than a dramatic soprano. You don't see voices of that voice type often in pop because they aren't as common. Most women are sopranos. As are most men tenors.
@@KajiVocals you can't compare opera with pop. Opera singers are taught to sing much darker and much more open, with a slightly lowered larynx at least. While in pop music it's mostly more relaxed.
Their larynx has slight deviations even in the best of pop singers to encompass a certain style or tone, they're not as open because they go for a more natural speaking tone and they don't carry as much chest to darken their tone, because again it is seen as unnatural.
In opera Beyoncé would either be taught as a high mezzo or a low soprano, eventually probably she'd sing dramatic soprano roles even with today's voice, despite that her passaggios start slightly lower than a sopranos.
Do a video about Contraltos, the forgotten ones.
There's literally under 10 contraltos that I can think of in the music history.
@@KajiVocals Knowing these RUclipsrs they'll surely put over 20 just for contemporary music lol.
@@KajiVocals I know it's two years later but could you name a few? I can't think of anyone other than Lisa Gerrard.
@@michaliskossyfas5862 Nina Simone, Annie Lennox, Sarah Vaughn, just to name a few. I don't think there are many true contraltos in the history of contemporary music because they are quite rare.
Beyonce
Dua lipa
Miley Cyrus
Lady gaga
Pink
Christina Aguilera
Adele
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Gaga has the best vowels for her range really. She has a natural low larynx just thanks to her vowels so the sound doesn't open too much and become airy or light and keeps it's weight and she uses it more uniquely in her music than any other singer here. So she isn't incorporating her range just to oversing or to prove anything
Open vowels are never light. Open are usually the darkest vowels a, ɛ, ɔ are generally pronounced more backwards therefore darker than their close counter parts i, e, o and u
@@Gameworks1407 yea I meant she avoids going light unless there is a color she wants to display in her voice but generally speaking she has proper vowels throughout her entire range
@@Rybore13 there isn't a thing as proper vowels 😂😂. English has around 11 vowels that monophthongs, depending on dialect. Not being able to produce all of the vowels in your native dialect while singing, to me is a fault.
@@Gameworks1407 any dialect or accent can have proper vowels. In fact american English is the laziest in terms of vowels so singers like Gaga make vowel modifications to adjust where the resonance is focused in the vocal tract. Thats why a Korean accent may be less throaty than a generic american English accent and why an "indie" accent is impossible to sing with proper technique because it's a faked accent usually
@@Rybore13 You're drifting into a linguistics debate you don't want to have. Yes some dialects and languages have more open vowels, for example Italian or German, which are better suited to singing.
But to say that a dialect or language is lazy is a gross overstep and frankly ignorant. The only time where the marginal difference between a and æ matters is in sustaining and upper notes; in the latter nearly all vowels lose their quality at high frequencies so it doesn't really matter. They all approach a.
As for the indie voice it can't be sung with proper technique, but it's not because of the vowels. It's the modification of space, muscles tension and nasality that causes it from being usable. The same reasons as to why no one speaks like that.
No vowel is also inherently throaty in English, maybe in certain speech patterns as an allophone, but never in singing. That depends on the technique of a singer to avoid tension in certain muscles, but has nothing to do with vowels.
Pretty sure that's what I am going by a guess since I feel most comfortable singing mezzo artists songs.
The Mezzo tessitura is what almost all women sing in. Don't be fooled by RUclips but most women are Sopranos, statistically and physiologically.
4:30 i agree on that but ariana,who is a light lyric soprano sometimes sounds "belty"on G#4s or even E4
Exactly so I really wouldn't count it as a sign of a mezzo
The thing is. Those classifications have little to do with belting lol. This is what happens when people try to push classical terminology into pop. Being full and loud in the lower fourth octave is literally a requirement for many soprano roles. Maria Callas was doing FORTISSIMO C4-F4. As were many other singers, including lyric coloratura sopranos. People need to understand how those classifications work before using them for contemporary singers.
GrandeFlamesButera yeah
Kaji i really love reading your comments but i never can,the stupid read more button doesn't work lol it's so annoying
@@yeetvocals3786 Read it on your phone. Should work there.
this video is everything, mezzo is so underappreciated....but, when u make a video about Lisa Fischer??
Lisa Fisher is top 3 vocalist
Liz Gillies at 3:24 and 5:05: amazing tone
I know this is a list of pop singers, but you should definitely check out BMK (Big Mama King). She is a South Korean R&B diva, and she is a great example of a very well-developed dramatic mezzo-soprano. I'd suggest you watch her performance of When Spring Comes. She is probably the mezzo-equivalent of Sohyang in Korea.
Lady Gaga is my favorite mezzo her range is F2-G5-E7
She doesn't have an F2 or E7.
Lie, her range is Bb2-F#5 in chest and chest mixed
@@pedrowerthjeong1470 in her song Alice she does an f2 when she sings free my mind
@@KajiVocals the F2 is in Alice when she sings free my mind. And she did an Eb7 and an E7 on a live concert let me search the link.
@@Daniel-dh8ro a) that’s not an F2 lol b) those aren’t countable
Come on, do a baritones one too!!!! Young boys also want to sing pop
Can you please make videos on Sopranos and altos too??? That would be of a great help. Thankyou
I believe these ladies (mezzo sopranos, the middle female voice) would be placed in the alto section in a choir. Alto is not a voice type, it’s a choral designation. Contralto on the other hand is the lowest female voice and those ladies have the ability to sing as low as men and still be comfortable. Most contralto’s would sing in the tenor section in a choir.
1:26
Can anyone tell me what song is this? it's beautiful
I really like Liz!
0:35 THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING FACH RIGHT!! I speak german and I cringe everytime people pronounce it like fuck😂
Can you do a video the includes mezzos and true sopranos singing the same songs?
Some of the singers in this are true sopranos.
@@KajiVocals which one are true sopranos?
Liz gillies voice is calming
What song is gaga performance in the white cape?
Lady Gagas tone is a killer tone
Can you do a video with baritone
We can conclude that mezzo-sopranos are more pleasant to hear than sopranos
Not really. Sounding pleasant has nothing to do with voice type. It has to do with how you sing.
@@KajiVocals Yes, and most of mezzo-sopranos have great vocal technique, like Beyoncé, JoJo and many others
@@Sergio-dx9wg They aren't mezzos. Compare them to actual mezzos like Oralia Dominguez and Elena Obraztsova. Completely different voices.
@@KajiVocals why wouldn't you classify JoJo as a mezzo,is it because her passagio is too high to be one??? Please explain, Beyonce too ,I really want to hear why you say so
@@Sergio-dx9wg Beyoncé Is a mezzo cause She can belt Es and F5 and you can also hear It from her breathy lows. Listen to the E3 in 1:08
what is the sont at 7:30?
JOJO MY GIRL
Please tell what is the title of the songs
Ik I'm a little late but I'm surprised that there are actually people who think singers like Beyoncé and JoJo are sopranos, and understandably so because these ladies sing with AMAZING vocal technique so it's not that obvious that they are actually mezzos.
With the exception of Mariah Carey (who has vocal nodules and does not train her voice too often), true sopranos would normally be comfortable belting up to at least an E5, even past their vocal primes. We see this with singers like Kelly Clarkson, Nicole Scherzinger and SoHyang, not only because all of these ladies have good belting technique but also because they are actually comfortable up there. Beyoncé rarely belts Eb5s live, let alone E5 and above, despite her good technique, simply because her mezzo-soprano voice has set in to the point that even her technique does little to help her belt, or even mix beyond her second passaggio, which, by the way, is too low for her to be a soprano. Beyoncé's second passaggio is at around Eb5/E5 while the average soprano's second passaggio would be around F#5/G5. I've also seen people saying that she "used to be a soprano". A singer's voice type can never change, no matter what they have gone through that has affected their voice. Pregnancy, smoking, etc. can lower a singer's tessitura but it does not change the singer's voice type entirely. This applies to Beyoncé as well. She has been pregnant twice and, indeed, her tessitura became lower both times and stayed lower. But that does not mean she was not a mezzo before becoming pregnant.
As for Jojo, yes, she sounds like a darker soprano but she is not. It is her vocal style and technique that make her sound like a soprano. Thanks to her wonderful chest development, she is able to attack her belts with an aggressive approach without actually hurting her voice, which is what makes them sound so powerful, piercing and high/bright. If JoJo belted normally, she would definitely sound more like a mezzo. People assume she is a soprano because she sounded like one in her 20s. Most female singers' voices only fully develop by their early or mid-20s and, in that time, JoJo had a rich, dark lower register and her passaggio was definitely at around E5/F5 because she rarely, if ever, belted above that. Yes, there are sopranos like Maria Callas and Natalie Weiss that have some of the best lower registers throughout all genres of music but sopranos can normally only gain warmth, darkness and natural ease/comfort in their lower registers through good vocal technique.
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Well Xtina is a SPINTO SOPRANO, register or belt tones are not the only condition about voice type, i am a lyrico-leggero but i coul d sing very low register(i am an opera singer) for example..and most of singer who is actually mezzo call as an alto(amy w,adele)...but thnx for video
She's just a soprano. Spinto is a classical fach. Doesn't apply to her. But yes, plenty of singers in this video are natural sopranos and a lot of real mezzos are misclassified as contraltos.
If my voice is strained below E3, can I consider myself a mezzo? Because most of the tests I've done tell me that I'm a contralto, yet my voice isn't deep, but my last note in my chest voice is a C5, so how do I position my voice?
Eres mezzo yo he comprado que los soy y con practica me he sentido mas comoda en el do3 pero antes me sentia comoda como tu hasta el mi3 y mi ultima nota aguda es el do#5 de pecho y ne cabeza si llego muy arriba hasta el A5 o B5
Y como tu no soy excesivamente profunda
Yo digo que si o si eres una mezzo o si te queremos poner en duda quizas soprano lirica pura ya que esta se tiende a confundir mucho
Y contralto muchas mezzo que tienen oscuridad se confunden con eso pero nada que ver esa voz rarisima
@@marisavaldez7583 Thank you for your comment. I'll tell you what I discovered after researching and practicing a lot. The type of voice is not only determined by the range but also by the timbre of the voice and its weight. I thought I was mezzo but although my voice is neither high nor low, it doesn't have the weight of a mezzo voice. So I think I'm a soprano but with natural ease in the bass. At the time I wrote this comment my range was: D3-C#5-Eb6 and now (Bb2)B2-E5-F#6. I was forcing my voice from E3 and rarely reaching C#5. But now my lowest comfortable note is a Eb3.
Ik I'm a bit late but it doesn't depend on just range. It also depends on vocal technique, vocal colour and passaggio. If you mean that the highest you can go using purely chest voice is C5, you are most probably just an underdeveloped soprano or a mezzo-soprano. True contraltos almost always have androgynous (male-sounding) voices and can definitely go down to at least the very bottom of the third octave with comfort. From what you're saying, if your voice is dark and weighty but still feminine, you are definitely a mezzo-soprano. Most mezzos have to mix in the fifth octave, sometimes even in the upper fourth octave. It's hard to tell without more information but I think it's safe to say that you are an underdevelopd soprano (since you're saying that your voice doesn't seem to be deep).
Edit: I just saw your newer comment and yes, you do seem to be a soprano. But probably a lower one, at that, since you seem to be comfortable in the lower part of your voice, plus your passaggio doesn't seem high enough considering that, from what you're saying, you don't seem to belt much, if at all, above E5.
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At this time I was struggling to extend my vocal range. I watched a lot of videos about "how to develop your vocal range" and one day I realized the problem: without support,t I couldn't extend my vocal range.
(I know that what I'm saying is very relative because it depends on many factors and singers. Singers who can sing high without vocal support exist. But for my case, as soon I understood that pushing my voice into my throat was unhealthy, I started to support and sing high notes by developing my mix register but that's another topic.)
I don't say that I can support high, now I'm not an underdeveloped vocalist anymore. Now let's come back to the main topic.
After studying a lot more about how to determine a voice type, I think that my voice type is between "light lyric" ou just "full lyric".
For the first one, I realized that my voice was very light and I learned that Katy Perry, a singer with a darkest vocal timber and weightier than mine singer can be a light lyric soprano but I still tend to think that I'm a full lyric soprano because I can support down to G3/G#3 and my low register is my most developed register.
What the song name that lady gaga performing?
Awesome video! It's just a shame that Florence Welch isn't recognized enough
She’s a soprano.
@@KajiVocals It's written everywhere that she is a mezzo online
@@DamianDabek Well, she isn't.
Florence is a soprano, her comfort range sits around B3 - C5 - A5 (her lower register is far too breathy to be a true mezzo). She just has a bigger sounding voice which is different to the girly voice most pop singers these days are known for.
some mezzo reached the whistle register?
Can you believe that people are saying in other videos that JoJo it's not a mezzo? Ohh noo She Definitely Is!
I cringe when I see comments like that
Like yeah mezzos are not extremely common, but if JoJo is not a mezzo-soprano then I don’t who is
Me?
@@aintnootherfan yeah lol 😂 people think she's a underdeveloped soprano but i mean, her voice/tessitura/range everything screams MEZZO, she's just very girly sounding, her voice just carries too much weight/thickness to be a soprano
Moonlight ENTM Maybe it’s her extended upper head range that confuses some people I don’t know
But saying that Lady Gaga is not a mezzo, Pink, Beyoncé, Adele are not mezzos is a bit too much for me
Sure, we could discuss whether Christina is a mezzo-soprano (who I believe nowadays is a mezzo) or Sara Bareilles but overall I think it’s pretty clear why these singers appear in this video
Thank you for your comment!
@@aintnootherfan yes i agree she's just trained and knows how to use it properly for example Beyonce has it also and Beyonce it's an absolutely mezzo-soprano! I think nowdays even though mezzos are hard to find and are not common, we can always identify who is and who isn't by the quality/range of the voice, i was just discussing this with a person and she told me that lady gaga it's a contralto 😂
@@aintnootherfan you're welcome and in my honest opinion xtina was a light lyric when she started in 90s/2000s and then declined into a mezzo-soprano maybe because unnecessary vocal strain/tension and technique? i don't think her pregnancy affected her i believe she had a pretty healthy pregnancy and didn't struggle with miscarriages and unhealthy healthcare you know without offending I'm saying it because those things affects vocal chords
you should do a video on contraltos!
There's barely any. I can think of under 10 real contraltos both in pop and classical. Not nearly enough to make a video. Contraltos are very rare. You're more likely to find a bass than a contralto.
@@KajiVocals, maybe Lorde and toni braxton.
@@jaychristianleria5476 Nah. Those aren't contraltos. I'm not even sure about Toni being a mezzo. She sounds just like Tamar when they performed Mary Did You Know. Toni even belted an easy F#5 and sounded very girly.
Kaji tbh i know there’s more but i couldn’t even name 3 lmaooo
@@notyourdaddy2148 There's one called Alecia B. Anderson on RUclips. She sings BASS in a quartet. She has notes down to C1. The highest I've heard from her was like an Eb5 in head voice and a belted A4.
Halle is a full soprano. Idk about Chloe. You probably can't tell cause it's pop.
Can anyone tell me what the song from 5:00 is
You needed me- Anne Murray
Does anyone know the song Miley sang at 1:33?
It is Don’t Dream It’s Over (originally by Crowded House)
Am dead at "you examples me again" 😂
Pls I don't wanna be rude but everytime I see those JoJo clips with the candle I can't help but thinking she's having a demon summoning ritual💀
Part 2?
Can you please do one on Baritones?
I would love this, especially since so many of us are faux Tenors lol. There are so many "Tenors" that are just baritones with good mix and headvoice training.
@@Sloppyjoey1 I was one of them 😭, I thought I was a low tenor until I realized I can't belt above a B4. Is it me or do baritones develop our mix fast?
Talk I definitely developed my mix before I knew it was mix! I think my voice now is more bari-tenor. What stood out for me is I never knew where my break was lol
I notice most mezzos and baritones are very consistent around where their passagio is which is sadly a good tell for vocal fach. In my personal experience Baritones and Mezzos more often than not can sing tenor/soprano far more proficiently than vice versa I would dare say most baritones have a headvoice that goes higher than a tenors
@@Sloppyjoey1 It's the other way around generally. Most 'baritones' are tenors.
@@KajiVocals is passaggio VERY important to decide someone's voice type? There are people like john park whose passaggio is bb3 but is a lyric tenor overall. Do passaggio can be decide after proper warmup?
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Question, whos the lady at 5:22
I can reach some lows of mezzo soprano but have the highest of the sopranos im a in between
Amazing video except some of these singers u included aren't even Mezzo's they just had a better developed lower register but that doesn't make them mezzo's just because they can do developed lows
GrandeFlamesButera while it is true that range and ease aren’t necessarily fundamental characteristics of a voice type. It is true that many mezzos have stronger lows and weightier belts as well as a general inability to mix as high as sopranos. However I would have to say that at the end of the day, range and vocal characteristics don’t define your voice type. It’s determined by passagio. That’s why many of the vocalists showcased here count as mezzos even tho they have considerable ease in low and high notes as well as a surprisingly lighter tone. However I still think that lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Adele (just to name a few) have tones that suit mezzos generally anyway. Not tryna be rude here :)
@@thatkpopfan4010 Beyonce is now a mezzo due to the pregnancies and the twins and the miscarriges and if she was a mezzo before all of this and all of these lowerings of her voice she would've been a control alto by now and I agree with everything and definitely without a doubt Adele is a mezzo
GrandeFlamesButera nah Beyoncé has always been a mezzo. She just trained really hard at expanding her range over the years and like you said due to having kids she pretty much lost a lot of her higher belted notes. As well as Christina however she didn’t focus too much on technicalities like Bey and lost a lot of her upper belts earlier in her career
Doug92 Beyonce was more of a regular soprano in her debut days but with all the pregnancies and miscarriages it caused her voice to keep lowering so now she is a high Mezzo due to the Twins
GrandeFlamesButera if you say so. I’ve always thought she had a full strong lower sound voice that always sat comfortably in a mezzos range. Of course she could take it up a notch whenever
Except a few exceptions for sopranos, I usually like a mezzo much better, the bulk of their singing voice is much richer and has more character. For me Christina is the perfect example of a mezzo, her mediums are so rich and resonant. Wouldn't have considered Pink a mezzo tho.
I feel like I’m a little bit higher than mezzo soprano but I don’t think I’m quite high enough for soprano
liz tone reminds me of lady gagas, am i the only one who thinks that?
Who’s here because they want to know what Gwyn’s voice sounds like in ACOSF💜
I feel like Beyoncé ,Christina, Jojo and Gaga are the best mezzos.
Xtina queen of baritones ❤❤
Lmao.
Half of the examples are Sopranos with very good lower register
def not
@@stanbtsforaclearskin both bey and Jojo are Sopranos, their voice is unusually weightless and light, plus extremely high tessituras for Mezzos
@@Undubbedriah girl bfr, idk about joho but Beyoncé is 100% a mezzo. her fullness? her weight? her voice is not light at all, and her high range is not even close to her low mid.
@@stanbtsforaclearskin her voice is so light that Whitney low key sounded more like a Mezzo than her
Beyoncé is definitely a soprano
But, what are the names of the song’s they’re singing 🤣 I’m good with remembering pitch/tone. But suck at remembering the name of the songs 😭
The great about being mezzo they have the weight and warm tone....
Christina is soprano and Whitney Houston but I don't know the reason ,some people make mistakes about the kind of voces...
Is katy perry a mezzo
lyric soprano
@@justinbraylock757 she belted a D6 in deja vu
@@justinbraylock757 no way
Also Vanessa Amorosi should've been featured just because she could trick anyone who hasn't heard her above C5 into thinking she's a mezzo.
some guy Definitely not. The girl can pull of Metallic F#5’s and G5’s in Upper Chest and she can also pull off C6 Mix and C6 Head Voice and She is way too bright to be a Mezzo or considered to be a mezzo
@@grandeflamesbutera3949 down to E3 she has the exact same weight of a mezzo. I only said she should have been featured as an example of sopranos with low voices vs mezzos with low voices because she has a very low voice if she applied it.
@@Rybore13 OH ok thanks for clearing that up
@@grandeflamesbutera3949 ofc😌
Julie Ann Definitely a soprano with a doubt because her tone is super bright and Mezzo’s don’t have Bright Tones especially on their Mid Belts or Upper Mix
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Why Whitney Houston is not included? She is the most powerful and very famous/well known mezzo-soprano singer.
Mostly because of the amount of misinformation on voice types and Fach, people believe Whitney's a Mezzo because of her developed chest voice and resonance (also using proper lower larynx) which in turn makes her sound darker than almost all the other contemporary Sopranos. She also used chestier vocal production than most, but it was healthy. I can hear the difference and one needs to understand how it works in Opera before they can apply it to contemporary singing. Whitney wouldn't be singing Mezzo rep, and she also considered herself a Soprano.
She never cared much for low notes and lost quite a bit of resonance down there which is very common for any singer on the Soprano spectrum.
@@XxQueenChristinaxX where did she say she was a soprano?
MrPeppeRE no they’re saying Whitney isn’t in this video because she’s not a Mezzo, she’s a Soprano
Whitney is not a mezzo soprano.
Realizing that myself is a mezzo made finding songs to sing in karaoke much easier 😂
where's Brandy??????????????
India IERE
Brandy is a SOPRANO.
Mezzos have the most powerful hv
Not me googling my vocal range and being Hype kuz apparently I’m mezzo soprano
Isn't Xtina a Spinto Soprano?
Nope. Lyric Soprano all day
Yes! Video Fake!
@@soyandygamez6824 You wish. A Spinto doesn't have to push, growl, and use tonal manipulation to release their power.
You really think J. Hud (whose technique isn't flawless but still) and Christina are the same voice type? In Opera Christina would be singing Lyric roles.
@@XxQueenChristinaxX nope!
@@soyandygamez6824 I approach Fach classically and it is what it is. Spinto rep would probably kill Xtina's voice if we're being honest.
In the intro I saw Tori Kelly,Does that mean u think she’s a mezzo? She’s not...
She's not, you're right
I've used her clip when I was talking about sopranos with great lower registers
@@aintnootherfan oh ok lol sorry
@@aintnootherfanshe's a Dugazan soprano
I'm a 17 Y.O boy
My supported range Eb2-F4-F5
My highest belting is A4
Sometimes i can go to A1
And my highest note is D6
So i don't know my type voice:(
Voice types have nothing to do with range. And support isn't a range of notes. It's a breath management technique.
@@KajiVocals ok
Baritone
@@KajiVocals yup when people say support I think they actually mean grounded
Christina Aguilera es Soprano de Coloratura.